Updates from our Cuckoos

Martin last transmitted on the 29 October at 19.02 and is still in the Central African Republic. He has been here since the 27th September. Chris joined him in CAR for a brief while before moving onwards and is now in the Congo. Will Martin follow the other three Cuckoos in to Congo or continue to reside in nearby CAR for the winter?

Martin is still on the edge of the rainforest in southern Central African Republic.

On 13th October, Martin remained at the edge of the rainforest in southern Central African Republic.   

As of Monday 10 October, Martin was still in southern Central African Republic. His tag is charging less well now that he is in more densely forested habitat with more cloudy weather but we should hear from him tonight. It will be interesting to see if he has followed Chris into the Congo to the south....

Messages received from Martin three days ago showed that he had moved 350km SSE. He is now near the southern border of Central African Republic and close to the edge of the Congo Rainforest, the second largest area of rainforest in the world. Could this be his final winter destination? At this stage we don't really know. Watch this space.

Martin has now been close to the watercourse he initially found in the Central African Republic for three weeks, and has been making short feeding forays along its banks.

Continuing his move south-eastwards, Martin did not hang around the location he had reached on the 25th. We next picked him up in the Central African Republic on the 27th August after having travelled another 250km. He has apparently homed in on another river system (if you zoom into the map you can see the dark line of trees surrounding the watercourse.

Martin remained on the edge of the Chari River floodplain until late on 24 August. A series of locations extending into 25 August showed him leaving the area to the southeast. By 0550hrs he had settled in an area 160km SE of his previous residency.